Canadian-born actress Alexis Smith (born 1921) would have turned 96 years old on June 8. Turner Classic Movies is celebrating her birthday by presenting nine of her movies, mostly during…
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Jackie Collins Movies: Surprisingly Few Film Adaptations of Her Bestselling Sex Novels. 2 starred sister Joan Collins: The Stud and The Bitch.
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Cate Blanchett as Lucille Ball: Oscar Winner Aaron Sorkin to Write Screenplay. Good idea? Blanchett won Oscar for playing Katharine Hepburn.
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Olivia de Havilland Turns 99: Sole Surviving major Gone with the Wind Cast Member Filed Lawsuit vs. Warner Bros. that Changed U.S. Labor Law.
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First Best Actor and Best Actress Oscar Winners: Emil Jannings, Janet Gaynor plus silent superstars Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge.
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Joan Lorring in ‘Three Strangers’ Joan Lorring dead at 88: ‘The Corn Is Green’ performer was one of the earliest surviving Academy Award nominees in the acting categories Best Supporting…
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Hattie McDaniel. Hattie McDaniel: First black performer to win an Academy Award One of the best and, despite nearly 100 film appearances, most poorly utilized actresses of the studio era…
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Humphrey Bogart, Old Hollywood’s most revered tough guy, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Day this Wednesday as TCM continues its “Summer Under the Stars” film series. (See further…
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Lilli Palmer in USSR hit featuring real-life suspected communist agent + 1 of Greatest ‘Conservative’ Movies and Silent Version of baffling gay icon.
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Best Actress Oscar nominee Jeanne Crain absurdly miscast as part-black woman.
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Errol Flynn, Roman Bohnen, Ann Sheridan are anti-Nazi fighters in Lewis Milestone’s World War II drama Edge of Darkness (1943) Eleven Errol Flynn movies and a 2005 documentary about the…
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Ninotchka with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas (top). The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (bottom). From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial…
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Claude Rains, one of the finest actors of the studio era – in fact, one of the finest film actors of the 20th century – is Turner Classic Movies’ Star…
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Ann Savage: Detour film noir actress who became a cult celebrity thanks to her memorably unglamorous psychopathic villainess dead at age 89.
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Edward G. Robinson. One of the greatest film actors of all time: Edward G. Robinson can be appreciated on Wednesday, Aug. 20, on Turner Classic Movies. Like Barbara Stanwyck, TCM’s…
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Car racing movie? Not exactly, but Dorothy Malone respects no speed limits in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind. May 8 highlights on Turner Classic Movies: John Frankenheimer’s car racing epic,…
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Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington, directed by Vincent Sherman. Vincent Sherman dead at 99: Director guided Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino (image: Bette Davis in ‘Mr. Skeffington’) Vincent Sherman,…
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Marc Lawrence: Prolific film gangster and blacklisted House Un-American Activities Committee witness who kept on going all the way to the 2000s.
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Mary Astor. Classic film festival Cinecon: Lots of rarities + pre-scandal Mary Astor & Mary Miles Minter There’ll be rare movies aplenty at Los Angeles’ mini-film festival Cinecon. For starters,…
Cary Grant Films: Gender-Bending Comedy I Was a Male War Bride with Grant as French wife but badly miscast in macho roles.
Bette Davis’ eyes keep Watch on the Rhine. Bette Davis’ eyes are watching everything and everyone on Turner Classic Movies this evening, as TCM continues with its “Summer Under the…
Ann Sheridan: “The Oomph Girl” Ann Sheridan, the determined, humorous, sensual 1940s Warner Bros. star, is one of my favorite movie toughies. Sheridan was also a first-rate comedienne (I Was…
Ida Lupino. Ida Lupino, one of the top Warner Bros. stars of the 1940s, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Thursday, Aug. 27. More than a second-rank…
Ann Sheridan. If someone asked me to name a truly tough film star, I’d never think of naming John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Humphrey Bogart, or any…
Errol Flynn DVD box set: The Signature Collection features 5 classic swashbucklers and Westerns in addition to a new Turner Classic Movies documentary.